TheEvilHawk, you are the only one having this problem out of the thousands of people who do play it. They don't have the same problem and you conclude it's the game?
Don't blame the game for your problems.
Only thing that describes that is an uncalibrated joystick.
Like they said above, calibrate in Windows first, then Aces High.
Try it again after calibrating.
Did you even hit the default map in the Map Controllers section?